I WAS amused by your Comment about traffic fines in Oxford High Street (July 27): “Transport bosses must think long and hard about priorities”.

Oxford’s transport bosses have apparently never thought long and hard about anything.

They caused unnecessary congestion in St Giles, Beaumont Street and many other areas. They introduced traffic humps and then removed them when they proved unworkable They closed the High Street and Cornmarket to through traffic when that route could have eased traffic hold ups. They introduced cycle lanes against the flow of the traffic in one-way streets.

They diverted buses a long way round Oxpens and Castle Street, adding to air pollution – and Frideswide Square has been an ongoing nightmare.

Now many of the main roads into Oxford from the ring road are the sites of seemingly endless congestion.

There is little evidence of our transport planners thinking long and hard about the consequences of their plans – except, perhaps, how to make Oxford’s traffic problems worse.

TONY AUGARDE
Carlton Road, Oxford